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An "action" shot of this spider.
They are nocturnal creatures, hanging upside down in the centre of their webs when waiting for a meal to come along. When they detect an insect struggling in the web, they race to the prey and quickly truss it up with silk for consumption.
In this instance, it felt threatened by my presence (i.e., with my iPhone a few centimeters from it and firing off the flash when taking pictures) and it was heading for the tree that served as the frame for its web and it daytime hiding location.
This photograph nicely shows the deep red / brown color of the body where hairs are absent.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_garden_orb_weaver_spider
Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6s Plus - Photograph taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s Plus.
645 PRO - The 645 PRO camera replacement app was used to capture the image. The flash was used to supplement the natural light. The exposure was set manually (ISO 50, f2.2 (fixed), 1/50s). The image was 4032 x 3024 pixels (12MP)
Handy Photo - The Magic Crop tool was used to pad the surrounds of the image so that I could get my preferred rotation and crop. Output an image with 3795 x 4418 pixels)
Snapseed - Rotated the image and cropped it to square format (2093 x 2093 pixels). Performed various overall lighting and color adjustments. Applied the Sharpen filter. Added some dark vignette to the corners
ExifEditor - Transferred EXIF data from the original photograph to the final image.
My daughter found this little dude on the ceiling. Great opportunity for a cool macro shot! Pretty excited about it.
After rolling down to BNSF's yard in South Omaha, UP 4014's passenger special, now led by UP 1943, shoves back towards the Omaha Amtrak Station and the Durham Museum.
POMOM2 (Passenger- Omaha to Omaha)
UP SD70AH #1943
(Rear) UP C45AH #8167
(Rear) UP 4-8-8-4 #4014
Omaha, NE
July 14th, 2019
Direct Rail Services class 47 No.47790 in Northern bell livery stands at Swinton station waiting to depart with the Inspection saloon on the 13.08.2014
I mentioned in yesterday's post a York Pullman AEC Swift which came into view with little or no warning after we were expelled from their garage. With no time to do anything half sensible I just picked the camera up and snapped away. Unfortunately, when the negatives came back from the chemist weeks later, I saw the full horror of what I'd achieved (or otherwise)! Not quite in the frame and even more blurred than usual was this beautiful well laden maroon, yellow and cream Roe bodied saloon. Would that I could re-visit York in 1976 . . . even with a phone camera.
“After that, dad didn't do as many scavenging runs any more. He didn't go out again for another week while he was recovering. We just took it easy for the while. Eventually, he felt up to it to start going out again to scavenge...always bringing the shotgun with him. He never ran into trouble again though. After hearing what he had to do that day I sometimes wonder how many other times he had to take someone’s life out here…
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Um. Anyway. Again, the months and years shifted by, and eventually next thing I knew I was coming up to being an adult. I was growing into the strong, independent women my dad wanted me to. But...hmp…I still acted like the little girl I grew up as, and-heheh…a lot of times that meant not really thinking things through…"
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- August 10th, 2038 -
*KNOCK-KNOCK*
*CRI-…CRINK!*
Cristy - “Hey, dad.”
- “Hey ho-…heh...wwhat-haha! Did, you do to your hair?”
*KA-TSH!*
Cristy - “You like it? I saw some styles in that magazine you’d found a while ago and thought it'd be fun to try colouring. Also gave instructions on how to do it. Y’know, something new.”
- “Yeah, but…how exactly did you dye it? Where’d you even get the dye from?”
Cristy - “I was looking through the storage room and I found some hidden away; that was actually what gave me the idea in the first place. No clue what it was even doing in there though.”
- “Eh, there’s plenty of stuff hiding away in there, some of it was put in there before any of this even started.”
Cristy - “So do you like it?”
- “Heh, it looks nice. It goes well with that haircut I gave you last week.”
Cristy - “Thanks dad.”
- “But…wait, don’t you need water for that?”
Cristy - “Well…with all the rain you've been saying we've had, I was assuming we’d have some to spare from the supply. I only tried to use as little as I could.”
- “*sigh*, you know how valuable that water is, it should only be used for necessities. You really should have asked me first.”
Cristy - “Sorry...”
- “But, you did try to conserve the amount you used, so that’s good."
Moving up the image is going down the steps. : )
Red Butte Gardens, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
RAW file processed in View NX2, tone mapping and levels adjusted in Corel Paintshop Pro X7.
Hawker Siddeley Aviation owned owned De Havilland Mosquito T.3 RR299/HT:E fires up her Merlins at the IAT held at Boscombe Down, 14th June 1992.
Dubbed the 'Wooden Wonder', the 'mossie' was built almost entirely of wood thus utilising existing carpentry skills which aided production of this incredibly fast and versatile aeroplane.
Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines they could range far and wide into occupied Europe and outfly many of the enemy fighters put up to intercept them.
They were built in huge numbers almost like an 'Airfix Kit' where both sides of the fuselage were fully fitted out before literally being glued together and being made mostly of wood, this allowed precious aluminium to be diverted to other aeroplanes badly needed for the war effort.
After the war many air arms flew the Mosquito until faster jets became available.
A handful survived and along with this delightful example, by then civil registered as G-ASKH, they appeared in several films including the famous '633 Squadron'.
Thrilling the crowds at many airshows, tragically she met an untimely end on the 21st July 1996 when after loss of control during a display at Barton, she crashed into a wooded area killing both crew.
The AAIB report deduced the probability that the port engine had a slight loss of power during the fatal 'wing-over' causing an unexpected assymetric input from which the pilot appeared to recover but by then, too late.
The link here gives the full report and whilst lenghty it does show the level of investigation that any aircrash is subjected to so that recommendations and actions are taken to avoid such occurences happening again.
www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/dft_avsafety_pdf_...
Scanned print
the focus is a little off because of my broken lense, but i attempted to keep the focus on her hands, it just didn't agree with me :] hahah but i'm glad you guys like it, thanks for the feedback!
aw i never told the story of this field!! the first time i went there with brittney the grass was a lot shorter. This time when we went in we realized that the grass was really tall, and there were also a ton of these bugs, that looked like dragonflies at the time, were everywhere. Not wanting to give up we went in anyway, and sometime around the point where we had walked halfway through the feild we realized that the bugs were actually mosquitos. We bolted out of there but in the process my favorite ring flew off my hand, so it is now somewhere in the feild amongst all those bugs. :(
model: alicia goff
Different kind of make-up.. more a smoky kind of thing.. but not quite.
Oh and do you think the purple lips are noticeable??
17/12/2015. A line up of Howells Bova's outside the Riverfront Theatre.
Also visible are coaches from the Phillips Transport fleet.
Olympus C-5060 self-converted to infrared, Hoya R72 filter used, white balance was set for the grass.
Union Pacific (UP) U28C 2801 in Nampa, Idaho, on Sunday,
Union Pacific (UP) U28C 2801 is leading a set that includes U50 44 in Nampa, Idaho, on Sunday, September 9, 1973. UP 2801 is a GE U28C. Reportedly UP 2801 was built in June 1966 by GE as a model U28C, builders number 36015, retired August 1981.
According to George Foster, "that 'Be Specific, Ship Union Pacific' boxcar in the background is a B-50-18 or B-50-19."
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35mm B&W images, Kowa SET, 50mm, 35mm H&W Control.